A Top 10 of films I have seen on DVD, streamed & on TV in 2012 - Steve Friendship Blog

A top 10 choice of quite a random selection
of films I have caught on DVD / Streaming / TV during 2012. The release dates
are many a varied and they just happen to be films I watched during the year.

1.
A
Separation

On the surface fairly
straightforward, underneath a minefield of moral complexity.

2.
Bridesmaids

Hilarious and a good
story.

3.
Rango

I had missed the
publicity, so it was a pleasant surprise that it was so good.

4.
Lourdes

A woman with MS visits
the town of miracles.

5.
The Help

A good story – even if
the reality may have been different.

6.
Heimat.

The Saga Continues. I
am celebrating reaching the end of Heimat Series 2. Series 1 & 2 are a
cycle of 24 feature length films following the fortunes of a German family from
1919 to 1982 – Domestic, but epic.

7.
Hearts of
Darkness: A filmmakers apocalypse

A great documentary
about the making of a great film.

8.
God Bless
America

Frank and Roxy clean up
America; with guns.

9.
Even
Dwarves Started Small.

Frankly anything by
Werner Herzog is fine by me at the moment. He could read a shopping list and it
would sound as if he had looked into the abyss… again.

10. Goth Cruise

Big-up for local
filmmaker Jeanie Finlay. Also catch Sound It Out a great doc about the last
record shop in Teeside.